2 Peter 1:3-15 - Growth In The Faith

³ according as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who has called us to glory and virtue, ⁴ through which He has given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. ⁵ But also in this very thing, bringing in all diligence, filling out your faith with virtue, and with virtue, knowledge; ⁶ and with knowledge self-control, and with self-control, patience, and with patience, godliness, ⁷ and with godliness, brotherly kindness, and with brotherly kindness, love. ⁸ For if these things are in you and abound, they make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For he in whom these things are not present is blind and cannot see afar off and has forgotten that he was purged from his sins in the past. ¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, rather be diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things, you shall never fall. ¹¹ For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

¹² Therefore I will not neglect to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them and are established in the present truth. ¹³ But I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by a reminder, ¹⁴ knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is soon, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. ¹⁵ And I will also be diligent to cause you to always have memory of these things after my departure.